AMD has a rich tradition of attracting enthusiasts to its products due to hidden features that are not officially documented. Customers of AMD processors actively turned some processors into others, manipulated the multipliers and activated the additional cache memory. Then for this purpose it was necessary to disconnect or close the "bridges" on the printed circuit board of the processor's substrate, but future generations of AMD processors offered the opportunity to activate the cores
via the motherboard's BIOS. The recently presented eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 models provide only the possibility of switching off the cores, but colleagues from the HardOCP website received interesting information from AMD representatives. All the Ryzen processors that are supplied in this half-year will be based on eight-core chips, even if we are talking about Ryzen 5 models with four or six active cores.

"Superfluous" cores, according to AMD representatives, are disconnected symmetrically. Of course, this does not mean that they can be turned on again There remains an open question about the layout of the dual-core Ryzen processors, which will appear in the second half of the year, but so far there is no need to draw any conclusions about the possibilities of using their "hidden reserves".